A new main trailer has been revealed for the upcoming Ping Pong Girls -Senko no Kanata e donghua compilation film, which spotlights the opening theme song and additional characters. The compilation film will be screened theatrically in Japan on May 16, 2025.
The main opening theme song highlighted in the trailer and used in the film is “Astride,” performed by three-piece Japanese girl group TrySail, whose members are part of the main Japanese dub cast.
Meanwhile, the additional cast members and characters revealed in the trailer include:
- • Fuka Izumi as Long Xiao
- • Manaka Iwami as Chen Ningning
- • Minami Tsuda as Zhao Siqing
- • Tetsuro Noda as Coach Liu
They join a main Japanese dub cast (whose name spellings are not officially confirmed) that include:
- • Shiina Natsukawa as Zhang Luoyi
- • Sora Amamiya as Lu Wang
- • Momo Asakura as Li Xintong
- • Haruka Tomatsu as Ding Xiao
Ni Jiafei (Meng Qi Shi Shen: Zaijie Liangyuan) directed the donghua series and co-wrote the screenplay with Lax and Ke Zha. Xiangzhi is credited with the original character designs, while Luo Yibei was in charge of the series character designs. HuaMei Animation was in charge of the animation production.
Ping Pong Girls is also known by its Chinese title Baise Shandian or by the unofficial English title White Lightning.
The Chinese animated series was originally released online for six episodes from July 20, 2024 to August 17, 2024, running for 17 minutes each.
The donghua series centers on a young athlete Zhang Luoyi, who was born into a family of elite table tennis players. After losing a crucial match that would have allowed her to turn professional, she abandons table tennis to start a new life. She enrolls in a distant high school located in northeastern China, where she makes several new friends such as honor student Lu Wang, table tennis nerd Li Xintong, and troublemaker Ding Xiao.
Source: Ping Pong Girls Official Twitter, Mantan Web, Official Donghua Website
This article uses sources that may have been partially translated from Japanese into English using machine translation tools.
